The reason America is in its death-throes is because America has lost moral authority.

Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, — Wynton Marsalis

When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of — Harold Edmund Stearns, America And The Young Intellectual

It’s just amazing how long this country has been going to hell without ever having got there. — Andy Rooney

The thing in jazz that will get Bix Beiderbecke out of his bed at two o’clock in the morning, pick that cornet up and pr — Wynton Marsalis

Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors, but like them resolve never to part with your birthright; be wise in your — Joseph Warren

I grieved three thousand times. Then I grieved for myself, a lonely woman without the honor given to the wives of the fa — Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

And it is undeniably true that the greatest and most important right of a British subject is that he shall be governed b — Joseph Warren

One day I was telling him that I thought that cars had replaced guns as phallic symbols for American men, and I thought — Christopher Moore, Coyote Blue

The big guys who ran things didn't want you thinking or feeling. It slowed down production. They wanted you scared and w — Bill Ripley, Prisoners

He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individua — Barack Obama

In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival. — Chaim Potok

$The young man looked down from the cart at the people in front of him. Jonah felt his teacher’s eyes meet his own, and for a fraction of a second a smile played on the prisoner’s lips. Then he glanced — Anna Myers, Spy!$

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